Barbara Kingsolver '77 Among Featured Guests at Tucson Festival of Books

March 11, 2009

March 11, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — Barbara Kingsolver, 1977 graduate of DePauw University, will be among more than 400 authors who will participate in this weekend's inaugural Tucson Festival of Books. The city-wide celebration of literature will be held at the University of Arizona on Saturday and Sunday and "will include workshops, lectures, demonstrations and various other presentations for people of all ages. Expected to draw 50,000 people, the festival is being pegged as the largest literary event to have been held in Arizona," notes an announcement.

"It will become, during its first year, the largest book festival in the entire southwestern region," according to Frank Farias, executive director of the University of Arizona bookstores.